melon.zone
indie game developer, game optimization freelancer, and film photography freak
https://melon.zone
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i've been tinkering with a retrocomputing side project recently and it's just so, so refreshing. just me and the text editor and some emulated chips that do One (1) thing ever
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Hey quick spoiler for the video game Mindseye (2025) but when you beat the game you unlock “free roam mode” which contains quite literally nothing, and you are forced to play as this character by default and can not change anything about him.
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yes, absolutely loved the winter-prep stuff. getting crockpots and pickling going for the first time and feeling some relief as the frost started to creep down from the hills was magical!
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oh wow. one of the smaller cameras is from the 1950s. the shutter was stuck, but i seem to have it working again! i'll be bloggin about it for sure, so stay tuned for that
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lankser...
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i am Also getting into tennis, but I'm starting from 0 with that one!! fun though
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picked up the original Phantom Brave recently and yeah... i was loving it, but i got buried alive by just too many different things to level up and just a few too many cliffs to get over. i could have also gotten cheesy with it, but it didn't really feel good. Disgaea 3 remains the only NIS i beat
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they're cooking so hard in ch3 and ch4 it's unreal
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I dug up this very helpful old article on the internet archive that I think explains the problem and solution extremely clearly using the way Quake handles gravity as an illustration
web.archive.org/web/20160719...
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crumch...
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and the perilous netting over a stairwell of course, not to be forgotten
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the ten foot drop in the fireman pole laundry chute is similarly scary. slip on a sock that fell out of your hands and plummet into a confined space with a big metal pole? sure!
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oh god. those horrible bushes gave me nightmares as a kid
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these look so great! like lovely nebula marbles!
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next they'll be using ECEF or something
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blammo!!!
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i gotta wait till the weekend to have enough time for 4, but today's marathon of 3 was awe inspiring
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sometimes the doctorate in my name feels like a useless ornament, but... it's also familiar!
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Oh, same exact same. I'll send you a letter by pigeon once in a while from my mountain to yours!
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yeah... it feels like the author holds a total misapprehension of what it even means to build and maintain something, abstract code structures or otherwise. like just barely scraping over the line is somehow the goal or point of it all
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Like I get why people add those things but you're shooting your UX in the foot if players are having their first impression and also being bombarded with a bunch of nonsense that isn't actually the game